Monday, May 11, 2009

Senator Lugar Slams EPA Ruling

A proposed EPA rule uniquely applying a life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions standard to ethanol has been met with fierce opposition in the US Senate.

Senator Lugar (IN) expressed his disappointment with the recent EPA decision:
“At this time when we all seek to work with the President to improve the economy through new energy investment, it is unfathomable that the EPA would act to curtail a great boon to rural development,” U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar wrote today in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.
 
Lugar said that the proposed EPA rule uniquely applying a life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions standard to ethanol was “highly speculative and imperfect” and “economic models simply do not accurately capture indirect emissions with an acceptable degree of certainty. . . I urge you to halt consideration of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions due to lack of sufficient information, and work with Congress to find a workable solution.”

The senator also spoke out against the new rule at the Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing on Thursday. Watch the video below.



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